Board 8 > New Sword/Shield Pokemon announced on Pokemon website

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If Tauros gets something then Miltank needs to be the counterpart.

Qwilfish as a counterpart to Dux sounds about right.
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comments ive seen are heavily in favor of Dunsparce becoming a dragon as the Sirfetchd counterpart, but maybe he could become a ghost instead to fit the gym leader idea

ghostsparce

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

comments ive seen are heavily in favor of Dunsparce becoming a dragon as the Sirfetchd counterpart, but maybe he could become a ghost instead to fit the gym leader idea

ghostsparce

DUMsparce

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More like

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Oh wait, duh. The obvious counterpart to Farfetch'd is Delibird. I forgot all about that thing.

edit: oh god those are some terrible stats. And why has this poor bird never been given a special Flying attack? My goodness.
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Since Christmas is a big deal in the UK maybe a new form of Delibird that leans even more into the Santa Claus theme (bigger hat and belly perhaps)
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Paratroopa1 posted...

(maybe remove Tentacruel and possibly Cloyster from that list, but I feel like they toil in obscurity enough that it would be nice to give them something)

Cloyster was one of the most significantly upgraded old Pokemon in gen 5. It's still viable and has a huge amount of useful moves.

mnkboy907 posted...

And why has this poor bird never been given a special Flying attack? My goodness.

Because Hustle is a physically-oriented ability and that's how they want to push him as an attacker. ("""Attacker""")
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instead of doing something for Cloyster, I want an alternate evolution for Shellder that looks like the thing on Slowbros tail. It was in a beta version of G/S but got cut for some reason... bring it back!

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Oh Im getting Pokemon Sword

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Interesting new tidbits. So TPC just released some new mobile thingy where you can stick Dynamaxed Pokemon into photos. It's memey and funny and whatever that's not the point. Someone has done some digging into it and found that the possible Pokemon choices are listed by codenames.

https://twitter.com/abcboy101/status/1174892982366900224

So, provided this isn't being pulled out of this random twitter person's ass, it would seem Polteageist, Alcremie, and Drednaw have a pre-evo. Corviknight has two pre-evos. Wooloo, Yamper, and Rolycoly evolve at least once (well duh).
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if thats accurate, Im really surprised Polteageist evolves from something. It had real single stage vibes to me.

excited to see prevo Corviknights though

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I guess it's not too surprising if it starts out as a teacup.
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oh lol tea cup makes perfect sense

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Corviknight was blatantly an evolution, but I didn't expect 2. I thought that it was parallel to Gogoat and Mudsdale.
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Paratroopa1 posted...

(maybe remove Tentacruel and possibly Cloyster from that list, but I feel like they toil in obscurity enough that it would be nice to give them something)

Cloyster got that neat Hidden Ability, so thats something.
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That guy updated the list and it looks like Duraludon is a single-stage.
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That actually feels like good news that they're specifically choosing to hold back reveals and not just... Not having much to reveal, since it'd mean the pseudo hasn't been revealed yet.

Unless there just isn't one this time.
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2 for Corviknight? Early bird confirmed then I guess if true and what an awesome one. Nothing about Impidimp? Whats weird is the code names though. Why are some Japanese and others English?

If Impidimp doesn't have a picture on the site, then there's nothing to datamine. And I doubt it would since it still hasn't officially been revealed.
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Oh, makes sense

So with this info about Corviknight its probably pretty likely the first or second stage of it is the bird Pokmon on Magnolias cane.

HashtagSEP posted...

That actually feels like good news that they're specifically choosing to hold back reveals and not just... Not having much to reveal, since it'd mean the pseudo hasn't been revealed yet.

Unless there just isn't one this time.

I was gonna say the final boss should have the pseudo, but I guess there's nothing stopping him using like a Dynamax or something

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Dont we already know the Champ has a Dynamax Charizard? If not its practically guaranteed anyways considering he has a Charizard >_>

Yeah, though the assumption right now is that he's not the actual "final boss."
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No credible leak has mentioned a Gigatamax Charizard, but yeah I'd be pretty surprised if there isn't one.
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Impidimp is a weird case because it's literally been publicly shown, and yet never "announced". So for people who don't read the internet, they don't know about it, even though it's right under their noses.

That's also another cool thing about this reveal cycle.
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It's like how Trevenant was only shown in the trailer that played in Japanese movie theaters.
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Corviknight was blatantly an evolution, but I didn't expect 2. I thought that it was parallel to Gogoat and Mudsdale.

The big difference with Corviknight is that it's completely unprecedented for the final evolution of the early game bird to be revealed before any of its pre-evos. That hasn't happened in any prior generation. The fact we haven't seen the first stage of the early game bird was a big reason why a lot of people thought Corviknight was a standalone Pokemon or is part of a separate evolutionary line from the early game bird.

We also haven't seen the early game bug yet, and we're less than 2 months away from release.
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Duraludon is just this generation's Druddigon/Drampa/Turtonator
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https://i.redd.it/20dcqnpsmyn31.jpg

Saw this today and now I want it to be a real thing

https://www.siliconera.com/2019/09/27/pokemon-sword-and-shield-galar-live-footage-will-show-glimwood-tangle-for-24-hours/

October 4 so hopefully we see some new Pokmon

Glimwood Tangle, that is a fucking fantastic name.

Hyped for the potential early Bug-type reveal.
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Hell yeah I want to see some new Bug types. There are so many critters to use for inspiration still

They're sure changing up their marketing strategy lately.
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swordz9 posted...

Hell yeah I want to see some new Bug types. There are so many critters to use for inspiration still

I always felt like they missed the mark by not using more big types so this is hype !

They've started some Pokemon Secret Club thing in Japan where you have to preorder Sword/Shield to become a member, and the website for it has recently become infested with Krabby

https://swshmembers.pokemon.co.jp/

Guess we know the next Galarian evolution!

EDIT: Turns out that Krabby happens to appear every place the word "club" appears.

EDIT 2: Apparently Krabby's japanese name and "club" are spelled the same, so it could just be some dumb pun thing and not mean anything
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StealThisSheen posted...

EDIT: Turns out that Krabby happens to appear every place the word "club" appears.

Caveman Krabby holding a big stone club confirmed.
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Yeah Krabbys original name is just the English word Crab which is phonetically identically to the English word club when pronounced in Japanese
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Starting at 9:00 AM EST on October 4th, you can watch a 24 hour livestream of Glimwood Tangle (a forest area) right here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya3CyVN5S_w" data-time="
https://www.twitch.tv/pokemon
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IT BEGINS

The livestream has started.
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Will you be watching for the full 24 hours Luster?
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Phantump's cry was heard.
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Man this seems super boring. Let me know if anything hype happens

So far it's just been confirmations of Morelull and Phantump along with Pikachu and Impidimp showing up.

I'm just checking Serebii's twitter since he's gonna watch the entire thing.
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-hotdogturtle-- posted...

Will you be watching for the full 24 hours Luster?

No, but I will try to watch as much of it as possible. So far, it has been pretty boring.
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Yeah I thought it was a stupid idea and it is a stupid idea
No clue who is insane enough to watch this (besides Joe for obvious reasons)

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Impidimp and also something new Possibly Galarian Ponyta have popped up
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Hbthebattle posted...

Impidimp and also something new Possibly Galarian Ponyta have popped up

Please no

swordz9 posted...

Hbthebattle posted...

Impidimp and also something new Possibly Galarian Ponyta have popped up

Please no

Please yes, especially if it's a kelpie like the leaks said.
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Id prefer it be completely new or something in desperate need of something like Farfetchd was.